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<div>This concern about technicians controlling what is allowed in schools arises in many forums, in many states, and in several countries</div>
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<div>Why is this? Surely these staff are paid, and have a manager, and are accountable for these decisions? Who directs the tasks they do? Surely if they are doing something other than what they are instructed to do, they face the same consequences as any other employee?
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<div>How did we let this situation develop in so many different education jurisdictions?</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Meadows, Roslyn M</b> <<a href="mailto:Meadows.Roslyn.M@edumail.vic.gov.au">Meadows.Roslyn.M@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Roland - Seems there are a few of us who have no right click! But an excellent idea to associate mp3's with Audacity.
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I had intended to start Audacity with my Year 10's today – about 3 weeks ago I checked that audacity was installed on the computers in my room and no probs.
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">However it appears it is installed on about one third of them, and most had no sound – overall about 5 kids out of 27 in the class had both audacity and sound - well so much for THAT multimedia educational experience – techs, not teachers controlling the curriculum again!!! I was also of the belief that every computer in the room was identically imaged but obviously not!
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